Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
When you visit the Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay festival and stand, slack-jawed in front of the astonishing projects on display, pummelled by the merciless bass, or slipping on a set of comfy headphones, entranced by the cool, funky soundtrack, then the chances are you'll have one company to thank. Euphonious, the audio experts behind …
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On Friday 21st of June, at Edinburgh university's Inspace, the Edinburgh Game Symposium will take place.  The symposium will focus on music and the development of video games. Tickets are available to the public, development community and those interested in the audio aspects of gaming.  Prices start at £5.00 and creep up to the entirely …
The last update to APB Reloaded, didn't just add new content, game types, items and vehicles, it added music too. APB developer Reloaded Productions and industrial rock band Dope Stars Inc. have signed an agreement which bring three tracks from the band's latest album UltraWired to the APB Reloaded soundtrack. The tracks Lies Irae, No …
You may not have come across Glasgow's TRC media yet. Â The company is a charitable organisation, which delivers research and training programmes to the television, interactive and wider creative industries. Like it or not, the reality is that digital and interactive media is fundamentally changing almost every aspect of the creative world. Â From the way …
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Updated: Game now in OPEN Beta Ninja Kiwi, the company formerly known as Digital Goldfish is settling comfortably into its new life as the mobile arm of the New Zealand online gaming powerhouse. Â The company's latest release in its quest to be more awesomer, is Road To Fame, which is now in open beta over …
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Lucky Frame is back - with a brand new game. Â After the awards, amazing reviews, nominations, plaudits, acclaim and general awestruck wonder that the company's previous title, Bad Hotel picked up, Lucky Frame has refused categorically to rest upon it's rainbow-hued laurels. Â The steely-eyed outfit has instead forced it's development gnomes back down the software …
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How was your 2012? Â Good? Â Bad? Â Indifferent? Â Inexplicably awesome? Â We may never know (unless you kept your friendly neighbourhood Scottish Games Network up to date with the latest, greatest news, releases and updates). The Scottish Games Network did quite well, thank you. Â Lots of new views, lots of new friends, lots of great interest. Â The …
It emerged a few weeks ago that the 2012 Creative Scotland Awards had categories for film, TV, music, performing arts but games, interactive entertainment and digital media had been neglected. We've since had several conversations with representatives from Creative Scotland who have gone some way to explaining why games didn't appear in the awards. Put …
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2012 has been the Year of Creative Scotland. Â A nation wide celebration of creativity which highlights all of the amazing talent, the clever businesses and the dedicated organisations we have here in Scotland. Unless you work in digital media. Â The recently announced Creative Scotland awards have categories for film and television, literature, music, theatre - …
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We are, of course, entirely objective here at Scottishgames.  We love all of the developers and games companies in Scotland without favouritism or preference. There are a few companies though, who do get us quite excited when we hear they're working on a new game.  We were lucky enough to see Bad Hotel in development, during an …